Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-02-25
SAM jones IN NEW YORK.
WHAT HE SAID TO A LARGE AUDI
ENCE IN ASSOCIATION HALL.
New York World
New York World.

ENCE IN ASSOCIATION HALL.
New York World.
Sam Jones, the famous revivalist,
entertained a large audience at the
Young Mems Christian Association
rooms, Fourth avenue, corner of
Twenty.thIrd street, last night. He
spoke extemporaneously for an
hour and twenty minutes and talk
cd in general about character, but
found time to also express what he
thought of many other things
There is nothing ornate about Sam
Jones's rhetoric, but what he has
to say he says in simple and at times
child.like language. and he isn't
afraid of calling things by their
right names. His talk was highly
interesting to the audience and he
was frequently interrupted by loud
applause. The basis of all true
character, Sam Jones thinks, is the
affections. "Show me what man
likes" said Mr.. Jones, "and what
he hates and will tell you his char.
acter." Among the other forcible
and remarkable sayings of this re-
markable man we're the following:
"One trouble with the theology
of to-day is that it is too broad
casted. I like things in rows. |
want my theology to be like a tele.
scope, so can look up through it
aud see the spires in the city OF
God.p
"a mans reputation is like his
girl. He can put her on or of and
not lose much. Reputation is easl.
ly made. To-day crowd will cry
mans hosannas tomorrow it
will cry, 'Crucify him."
wn6delity is only a great big
mouth going all around talking
There's nothing in it but mouth,
nothing behind it to back it up
Look under it and over it and
through it and on all sides of it and
you only find mouth
"Faith is traces, and all you've
got to do is step in and go ahead.
Doubt is like these hold.back ar
rangements, and if you step in you
are sure to 60 backward"
ave shouldn't ask for more
grace, but we should use the grace
we've got already. It's not the use
of grace, but the misuse Of it that
damns men. There never was a
bigger falsehoOd perpetrated on
God than the Sunday.schOol song,
Surely, the Captain can depend on
me-"
"PeOple say to me, Zones, why
don't you preach Christ You only
preach law. To all such l say, do
you suppose III bring my God
down here among you cut.thrOats p
The pulpit is the last place IN the
world to show the white feather
The greatest blessing a church can
have is a preacher who is game
from head to foot. The guns of the
devil we're never closer to the pull
pit than now"
ga man who has the courage TO
preach his convictions must be &C.
centric nowadays. Pm eccentric,
they all say, and butcher my gram.
mar. God never made two fellows
alike, because if he did one of them
wouldn't amount to mnch.'
"There's many an old Salvation
Army fellow who is going to sit
around the throne aud many a ID.
d. who is going to take a back seat.
Pun going to be ID. ID. myself some
day, but then things are coming
I down and Pm going up."
"a good many preachers have
got Wholesale liquor dealers in their
church, but they don't say anything
about them because they might hurt
their feelings. If there is anybody
in this world hold in contempt it's
the fellow who goes around with
his feelings sticking ont like quilts
on a porcupIne's back"
"Do you want to know the differ
ence between moral and physical
cOuragei The first is the hero
standing up for the right, and the
second is the little bull pup sleep.
ing on the mat.r